DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Amazon

FairCom Corporation

Microsoft

Yandex

Initial release

2012

1979

2014

2023

Current release

V3, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

JSON types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access Control Lists

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